Re: [Hampshire] dig and nslookup

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Author: Andy Smith
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] dig and nslookup

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Hi Andy,

On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 03:16:09PM -0400, Andy Random wrote:
>
> On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> >dig and nslookup are both in the "dnsutils" package.
>
> Well that would certainly explain it :)
>
> and indeed installing "dnsutils" fixes the issue, thanks Keith!
>
> As a bonus question why does "apt-cache search nslookup" only return:
>
> host - utility for querying DNS servers


Note that nslookup is deprecated which may be why its existence is
not advertised.

Cheers,
Andy